Read our #DMMEditorsChoice highlight on the Research Article by Laetitia Pinte, @martavilagonz.bsky.social, @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social, @andresfloto.bsky.social, @pcicuta.bsky.social, @vallierlab.bsky.social and colleagues. doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

New pre-print up introducing our bacterial protein language model Bacformer, creating a unified representation of entire bacterial genomes led by @macwiatrak.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out Maciek's tweetorial for Bacformer with links to code, tutorials and blog post: bsky.app/profile/macw...

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve. Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

New project led by Professor @andresfloto.bsky.social‬ and Dr Sundeep Chaitanya Vedithi at @cam.ac.uk‬ has received £1.2m funding from @ukri.org‬ to develop point-of-care DNA sequencing for rapid detection of #AMR in leprosy across the Philippines. Read more: buff.ly/9UYWUBR @vpd-hlri.bsky.social‬

One week left to join @andresfloto.bsky.social‬ 's team as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to develop new antibiotics against mycobacteria using permeability-enabled fragment-based #DrugDiscovery. This 2-year fixed-term position is based in @cambridgebrc.bsky.social‬ 🧬Apply by 12 June:

📢 Few days left to apply for our PhD studentship at @vpd-hlri.bsky.social 📢 Our 3-year programme supervised by @andresfloto.bsky.social explores chemical permeability and metabolism using #ML #GenAI to guide antibiotic drug discovery. Apply by 15 April➡️ buff.ly/9oCo4ZJ

Hear more from our Professor Eoin McKinney, @andresfloto.bsky.social & Mihaela van der Schaar on how we're unleashing the full potential of AI in health and medicine, and how Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine puts us in the perfect position to be leaders in the field⬇️ cam.ac.uk/opinion-ai-a...

Exciting PhD studentship opportunity in @andresfloto.bsky.social lab on understanding chemical permeability to advance antibiotic drug discovery www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50800/. Combines experimental approaches with in silico screening and generative AI.

#ICYMI: In a Science study, researchers present “Evo”—a #MachineLearning model capable of decoding and designing DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, from molecular to genome scale, with unparalleled accuracy. Learn more: scim.ag/41bmK6u